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National Supported Work Evaluation Study, 1975-1979
[electronic resource]Public Use Files
Manpower Demonstration Research Corporation
2009-02-02Ann Arbor, Mich.Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor]1984ICPSR7865NumericTitle from ICPSR DDI metadata of 2015-08-02.AVAILABLE. This study is freely available to ICPSR member institutions.Also available as downloadable files.
This study is an evaluation of the National Supported Work
Demonstration project, a transitional, subsidized work experience
program for four target groups of people with longstanding employment
problems: ex-offenders, former drug addicts, women who were long-term
recipients of welfare benefits, and school dropouts, many with
criminal records. The program provided up to 12-18 months of
employment to about 10,000 individuals at 15 locations across the
country for four years. In ten of these sites -- Atlanta, Chicago,
Hartford, Jersey City, Newark, New York, Philadelphia, Oakland, San
Francisco, and Wisconsin, 6,600 eligible applicants were randomly
assigned either to experimental groups (offered a job in supported
work) or to control groups, and an evaluation was conducted on the
effects of the Supported Work Program. At the time of enrollment,
each respondent was given a retrospective baseline interview,
generally covering the previous two years, followed by up to four
follow-up interviews scheduled at nine-month intervals. Two public use
files were originally distributed for this data collection: Supported Work
Employment and Earnings File, and Supported Work Deviant
Behavior File. Each file contained data for up to five
interviews, a cross-document dataset and an Aid to
Families with Dependent Children (AFDC) recipients follow-up. The Employment and Earnings File contains data from all interview modules except the drug and crime sections, and the Deviant Behavior File contains all variables on the Employment and Earnings File as well as additional information on drugs and crime. Aid to Families with Dependent Children (AFDC) recipients were further asked about children in school and welfare participation, while all non-AFDC
respondents were questioned about any extralegal activities. Demographic items specify age, sex, race, marital status, education, number of children, employment history, job search, job training, mobility, household income, welfare assistance, housing, military discharge status, and drug use. Each respondent has up to six logical, fixed-length records, with each record corresponding to a completed interview (up to five) and one additional short "cross-document" record. A User's Guide describing the collection
and its components is available and should be read before the collection
or any part of it is ordered.
Cf.: http://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR07865.v2
social attitudesicpsrcriminal justice systemicpsrdevianceicpsrdrug law offensesicpsreconomic behavioricpsremploymenticpsrgovernment programsicpsrjob historyicpsrlabor forceicpsroccupationsicpsrpublic assistance programsicpsrquality of lifeicpsrsocial behavioricpsrsocial indicatorsicpsrunemploymenticpsrwork environmenticpsrworkersicpsrNACJD XI. Drugs, Alcohol, and CrimeNAHDAP I. National Addiction and HIV Data Archive ProgramICPSR XVI.A. Social Indicators, United StatesManpower Demonstration Research CorporationInter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research.ICPSR (Series)7865Access restricted ; authentication may be required:http://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR07865.v2